English-Dutch translation for "to retaliate"

to retaliate [retaliated|retaliated] {vb} (also: to repel, to reduce the price, to counter, to recoil)

to retaliate [retaliated|retaliated] {vb} (also: to revenge, to avenge oneself)

Europe must retaliate.

The Amal retaliated and shelled the camp.

We must retaliate swiftly and not be content with spoken or written protests.

Putin considered Khodorkovsky to have slighted him personally, so he retaliated.’

We overreact because being human, we feel like retaliating, and it gets worse and worse and worse.

So if they retaliate with the same force, the first person will think it's been escalated. ~~~ So we decided to test this in the lab.

At the same time, the European Parliament warned of the need for the European Union to make plans to retaliate against the US decision.

And if the defender retaliates against the wrong adversary, they risk making one more enemy and ending up diplomatically isolated.

He grabbed them out of my hand and threw them at my face, and I felt that I could -- eye for an eye -- I could retaliate, and throw one back at him.

We must support the Commissioner in his determined attempts to protest and, if necessary, retaliate - but carefully.

Hizbollah will claim that it is attempting to retake the Golan Heights, and Israel will claim that it is retaliating for these incursions by bombing Lebanon.

Now, one way of dealing with this problem is by deterrence. ~~~ You don't strike first, but you have a publicly announced policy that you will retaliate savagely if you are invaded.

And one thing you notice about children in backseats of cars on long journeys, they get into fights -- which started with one of them doing something to the other, the other retaliating.

Nonetheless, I appeal to those affected and the Russian Government not to retaliate with similar means but to seek a peaceful solution.